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“necessary for our nation’s security.†Bullshit! How many calls were logged? Was each related to a threat to this country?
Feinstein hates Freedom. Vote for her again, Dumass Democrats.
Saxby Chambliss could kiss me ass but I don't know where his mouth has been.
Dan8267
2013 Sep 27, 4:33am
Make all the information the NSA collects publicly available. When the common man can pursues the phone, email, and video conversations of politicians and see what their underhanded business dealings are, the Senate will pass privacy legislation damn quickly.
FortWayne
2013 Sep 27, 5:50am
Make all the information the NSA collects publicly available. When the common man can pursues the phone, email, and video conversations of politicians and see what their underhanded business dealings are, the Senate will pass privacy legislation damn quickly.
They'll just exempt themselves from the legislation.... kind of how they exempted themselves from Obamacare.... Washingtons usual "Good for you, not for me".
curious2
2013 Sep 27, 8:09am
Make all the information the NSA collects publicly available.
Senator Moynihan used to say the government shouldn't generally be allowed to keep secrets. I don't know how that would work in terms of investigations and so on, governments have always kept secrets and so I can't point to any example of a successful government that didn't. I have actually an opposite concern: a reason for many of our current problems is precisely because the people in charge don't attach enough importance to privacy. Our electoral process and even our judicial process have become soap operas, political theater where nobody who cares really about privacy would even put themselves through the process. If you say the NSA should publish all data about all politicians, then what kind of politicians will you have? Egomaniacal extraverts who want as much attention as possible. Hmmm, that sounds a bit like what we have now. One of the American jurists most associated with privacy rights was William O. Douglas, whose hobbies included canoeing alone. Hardly anyone knew much about him when FDR nominated him to the Supreme Court, and his confirmation hearing involved few if any questions; IIRC he traveled to the Senate in case the judiciary committee wanted him to testify, and they didn't. That doesn't happen anymore. Now it's all about the bio, the soap opera, selling soapflakes (and Rx pills) on TV, the nominee was born in a log cabin that she built herself, she published a book about it, and behold Obamacare. There are people who love the attention, for whom having every detail of their lives broadcast on TV is an attraction, but I don't want a government populated entirely by such people.
"The Senate Intelligence Committee appears to be moving toward swift passage of a bill that would “change but preserve†the once-secret National Security Agency program that is keeping logs of every American’s phone calls, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who leads the panel, said Thursday.
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By contrast, a rival bill drafted by skeptics of government surveillance, including two members of the committee, Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado, would ban the mass call log collection program.
That more extensive step is unlikely to pass the committee. Ms. Feinstein contended that “a majority of the committee†believed that the call log program was “necessary for our nation’s security.â€"
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